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Educational Laws 

Passed by the 

Twenty-Second General Assembly 

1919 

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Issued Under Direction of 

MARY C. C. BRADFORD, 

State Superintendent of Public 
Instruction 



DENVBR, COLORADO 
BAMES BROTHERS, STATE PUIN'TERS 

1919 



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FEB 9 1920 






To School Officers and Teachers of Colorado : 

This addendum to the School Laws of Nineteen-seventeen con- 
tains all educational legislation passed by the Twenty-fourth Gen- 
eral Assembly. Taken in connection with the Nineteen-seventeen 
edition, it presents a complete compilation of the statutes relating 
to school matters. 

Thanks are due to Mrs. Alice B. Clark, Deputy State Superin- 
tendent of Public Instruction, for this codification. 

Kindly remember that all publications of the Department of Public 
Instruction become the property of the school district to which they 
may be sent, and must not be removed by school officials or teachers. 

Trusting that this pamphlet may be of service, and feeling sure 
that the school people of the state will be grateful to the Legis- 
lature for many of the excellent measures passed during the last 
session, I am 

Very sincerely, 



Mau' ^ •^- '^ncUJ^. 



State^uperintendent of Public Instruction. 

MCCB/A 



INDEX 



Subject: Page 

ADULT BLIND 

Teacher — duties of 7 

BLIND 

Compulsory Education of 9 

Provide Education for 9 

Readers for 8 

BONDS 

Amounts of 10, 13 

Election for 11 

Rate of Interest 13 

Redemption of 16 

State Treasurer invest 10 

CENSUS 

Authorize enumerator to ascertain names, place of birth, nationality 

of parents, etc 17 

Census enumerator empowered to administer oath 17 

CHILD WELFARE 

Appropriation for 18 

Commission of 17 

Selected — by whom 18 

CONSOLIDATION 

Adjoining school districts of the first class 19 

Board may, in its discretion, furnish transportation to pupils one 

or more miles distant 19 

Board of directors of district with largest school population be- 
come directors of consolidated district. (See Tax.) 19 

COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT 

Salary of 20 

Mileage allowed 20 

DIPLOMAS 

See State Normal School 33 

DIRECTORS 

Bond of— oath of 21 

Failure to perform duty 21 

President preside at meetings, secretary preside in absence of 
president 22 



INDEX-ContmueJ 



Subject: Page 

EiLElCTIONS 

Ballot box — time open 24 

Electors — qualifications of 25 

Registration of 25 

First and second class districts 27 

Notices must specify at what hour and place any other business 
shall be transacted 24 

ENGLISH LANGUAGE 

Common branches of study taught in 31 

No separate and distinct branch taught — except in 31 

LOANS 

Available to 32 

Cannot exceed two hundred dollars 32 

Discharged soldiers and sailors 32 

RETIREMENT FUND 

Amount of 32, 33 

Eligible when .33 

First class districts only 32 

Money secured — how 33 

SALARY 

See County Superintendent 20 

See Teachers 34 

STATE NORMAL SCHOOL 

Board of 33 

Diploma of 33 

Examination for , 33 

TAX 

Consolidated and union high sclfiools exempt, when .34 

TEACHERS 

Minimum salary of 34 

TRANSPORTATION 

Any class district , 36 

When unfeasible 36 

TUITION 

Arrangements for enforcible by law .•36 

UNION HIGH SCHOOL 

See Tax 34 

VOCATIONAL EDUCATION 

Funds disbursed by — Board 37 

Provide for co-operation with Act of Congress 37 



ADULT BLIND 

Concerning the Education and Teaching* of the Adult Blind of 
Colorado, and Making an Appropriation Therefor 



Section 1. The office of the State Teacher of the Adult Blind 
of the State of Colorado is hereby created and established. Said 
officer shall be either a male or a femade resident of this State, to be 
selected and appointed by the State Board of Education at its 
annual meeting the last Saturday in December each year, and 
shall hold office for one year from said date or until his or her 
successor is duly appointed ; Provided, that said Board in selecting 
said officer shall make such appointment by virtue only of the 
appointee's peculiar fitness for the position, competency and ex- 
perience as a teacher of the blind, good moral character, and shall, 
where practicable, select a non-seeing person as such teacher. 

Section 3. The duties of said officer shall embrace the educa- 
tion and teaching of all adult blind residents of Colorado at their 
respective homes, under such regulations, directions and proce- 
dure, and in those methods and educational branches prescribed 
by the State Board of Education. It shall be the duty of said offi- 
cer to prepare, maintain and keep a ''Register of the Adult Blind 
of Colorado," which register shall describe their condition, cause 
of blindness, capacity for education and industrial training, and 
such other information and relevant facts as are available con- 
cerning said persons; and the Board of Control of the Colorado 
Industrial "Workshops for the Blind, or its successors, and the 
Superintendent of the Colorado School for the Deaf and Blind 
are hereby directed to co-operate with said officer in the prepara- 
tion and maintenance of said Register by furnishing from time 
to time, the names, addresses and such other facts concerning the 
adult blind in Colorado as may appear on their records or other- 
wise come to their knowledge. The work of preparing and main- 
taining said register shall be done in the office of, and by the 
advice and under the direction of the State Superintendent of 
Public Instruction, where such Register shall be preserved and 
filed. 

Section 4. Said Teacher of the Adult Blind shall appoint a 
secretary whose powers and duties shall be as prescribed by the 
State Board of Education and tlio Slato Toachor of the Adult 
Blind. 

Section .5. All the time and services of said Teacher of the 
Adult Blind shall be devoted ratably among the homes of all safd 



8 EDUCATIONAL LAWS PASSED BY THE 

adult blind in the manner prescribed by the State Board of Edu- 
cation, and said teacher shall, prior to the first day of December 
of each year, prepare and file with the president of said Board, a 
full and complete report of all the work commenced or accom- 
plished by his office during the preceding year ; Provided, that the 
State Board of Education shall have power at any time to remove 
said officer after due hearing for any reason sufficient to said 
Board, and to appoint another officer for such unexpired term. 

Section 6. The State Teacher for the Adult Blind shall 
receive a salary of Fifteen Hundred Dollars ($1,500.00) per 
annum, payable in equal monthly installments in the same man- 
ner as other state officers are now paid, upon vouchers properly 
drawn by the State Board of Education. Said officer shall also 
be paid and allowed traveling and living expenses while away 
from the place of his residence and traveling at the request of the 
State Board of Education in the fulfillment of his duties either 
within or without the state. The secretary to said teacher of the 
Adult Blind shall receive a salary of One Thousand Dollars 
($1,000.00) per annum, payable monthly in the same manner as 
other state officers are paid, upon vouchers drawn by the State 
Board of Education. The traveling and living expenses of the 
Teacher -of the Adult Blind and his secretary, as well as expenses 
incurred in the purchase of necessary books and papers for the 
preparation of the register, and such necessary teacher's equip- 
ment and teaching methods, and such other necessary expenses 
duly approved by the State Board of Education, shall not exceed 
in all the sum of Fifteen Hundred Dollars ($1,500.00) per annum, 
which said expenses shall be evidenced by itemized statements 
thereof filed by the State Teacher of Adult Blind with the State 
Board of Education at the end of each month, and shall be paid 
monthly by the State Treasurer in the same manner as the expenses 
of other state officers allowed by law are paid, and upon due war- 
rants of the State Auditor, who is hereby directed and authorized 
to issue said warrants upon the receipt of properly issued vouchers 
of the State Board of Education, covering said expenses'. 



BLIND 



To Provide Readers for Blind Students Attending* Any of the 
Four Colorado State Institutions for Higher Education, and 
to Assist Deaf Students Attending the National College 
for the Deaf at the City of Washington, in the Dis- 
trict of Columbia, and Making an Appro- 
priation Therefor 

Section 1. The sum of One Thousand Five Hundred Dollars 
($1,500.00) or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby 
appropriated out of any moneys in the state treasury not otherwise 



TWENTY-SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY, 1919 9 

appropriated, for the biennial period ending November 30, 1920, 
in providing- readers for the blind persons who shall be residents 
of the State of Colorado and graduates of the Colorado School for 
Deaf and Blind, and who shall regularly matriculate in, and work 
for a degree in any of the four Colorado State Institutions for 
higher education ; and in defraying the expenses of deaf persons 
who shall be citizens of the State of Colorado, and graduates of 
the Colorado School for Deaf and Blind, taking a collegiate course 
of instruction in the National College for the Deaf at Washington, 
D. C. ; Provided, however, that no more than Three Hundred Dol- 
lars ($300.00) shall be expended for any one blind student during 
any one school year, and no more than One Hundred Fifty Dollars 
($150.00) for any one deaf student during any one school year. 

Section 2. The mone^^ appropriated by this Act shall be used 
for no other purpose than that set forth in Section 1 hereof, and 
shall be expended under the direction and control of the Board of 
Trustees of the Colorado School for Deaf and Blind, and the 
Auditor is hereby instructed, upon presentation of orders of said 
Board of- Trustees, signed by the president and countersigned by 
the secretary, to draw warrants for the payment of such orders, 
not in any event to exceed the amount hereby appropriated. 



BLIND— COMPULSORY EDUCATION 

An Act to Provide for the Compulsory Education of Children Who 

Are Deaf or Blind, and Providing Penalties for a 

Violation Thereof 

Section 1. That every parent, guardian or other person, resid- 
ing in the State of Colorado, having the custody, control, care or 
supervision of any deaf or blind child between the ages of six and 
sixteen years, inclusive, shall cause said child to attend some public 
or private school, in this state, wherein deaf or blind children are 
taught, instructed and educated, for the full school term each year, 
until such child shall reach the age of seventeen years ; Providing, 
however, that this Act shall not apply to any child who is taught 
in his home by an instructor competent and qualified to give in- 
struction to the deaf or the blind ; nor to any deaf or blind child 
who is successfully pursuing a course of study in some reputable 
public or private school for normal children ; nor to any child who 
is regularly enrolled as a pupil in a reputable school, either for 
the deaf or the blind or for normal children, outside the State of 
Colorado; nor to any deaf or blind child whom the health officei* 
having jurisdiction over the residence of the pai-ent, guardian, or 
person having custody and control of such child, shall certify as 
not in proper mental or physical condition to be sent to any such 
school as above provided. 



10 EDUCATIONAL LAWS PASSED BY THE 

Section 2. Any parent, guardian or person having control 
or custody of such child, who fails to comply with the provisions 
of this Act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon 
conviction in any court of competent jurisdiction shall be fined 
in any sum not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars and the 
costs of the proceeding. 



BONDS 



To Authorize Purchases of United States Bonds by the Treasurer 
of the State of Colorado from Investment Funds in His Hands 

Section 1. The State Treasurer is hereby authorized and 
directed to invest any moneys belonging to the Public School In- 
vestment Funds and the State Compensation Insurance Fund 
in bonds of the United States Government at the market value 
thereof, not exceeding par, when authorized and directed so to do 
in the following manner: 

Moneys belonging to Public School Investment funds shall be 
so invested upon authority and direction of the State Board of 
Land Commissioners and moneys belonging to the State Compensa- 
tion Fund shall be so invested upon authority and direction of the 
Industrial Commission of Colorado. 

Section 2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are 
hereby repealed. 



BONDED INDEBTEDNESS 

Relative to the Contraction of Indebtedness by School Districts 

Section 1. The board of education of any school district may 
submit at any regular or at a special election called for the pur- 
pose, to such of the qualified electors of the district as shall have 
paid a school tax therein in the year next preceding such election, 
the question of contracting a bonded indebtedness, for the purpose 
of erecting or furnishing school buildings or purchasing grounds, 
or for funding floating debts or for any of said purposes. 

Section 2. The amount of the bonded indebtedness proposed 
to be contracted, and the maximum rate of interest which it is 
proposed that it shall bear, shall, prior to such submission to said 
electors, be determined by said board of education; but in no 
, event shall the aggregate amount of bonded indebtedness of any 
school district of the first or second class exceed five per centum, 
or of any school district of the third class three and a half per 
centum of the assessed value of the property in such district for 
the year next preceding the date of said bonds. 



TWENTY-SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY, 1919 11 

Section 3. The secretary of the school district shall give notice 
of such election in the sam^ manner and for the same length of 
time as is required by law for notices of elections of school direc- 
tors, which notices in addition to any other things that may be 
required by law, shall contain a statement of the amount of the 
bonded indebtedness proposed to be contracted, the maximum rate 
of interest which it is proposed that the same shall bear, and the 
time or times of the payment thereof; the day, and the place or 
places of such election, and the time during which the ballot box 
or boxes shall be kept open, not less, however, than three hours in 
districts of the second and third classes. In districts of the first 
class the polls and ballot boxes shall be kept open from seven 
o'clock a. m., to seven o'clock p. m. 

Section 4. In districts of the first and second classes the 
board of education may in the same manner and within the same 
time before election as shall then be provided by law for elections 
of school directors, divide the district into election precincts, desig- 
nate voting places therein and appoint judges and clerks of election 
therefor. If one or more judges or a clerk of election shall be 
absent at the time and place stated in the notice for the opening 
of the polls and ballot-boxes, the vacancy or vacancies thus created 
shall be filled in the same manner as shall then be provided by law 
for filling like vacancies at elections of school directors. 

Section 5. In districts of the first and second classes the 
secretary shall cause to be prepared printed ballots containing a 
statement of the amount of bonded indebtedness proposed to be 
contracted, the maximum rate of interest which it is proposed 
that such bonds shall bear, and the time or times at which the 
principal of said bonds shall be payable, and beneath such state- 
ment the words ''For the bonds," and the words ''Against the 
bonds," with suitable places opposite each of the same wherein 
the voter may indicate his approval or disapproval of the proposi- 
tion submitted, by a cross-mark (X). In districts of the third 
class each elector voting at such election shall deposit in the ballot- 
box a ballot whereon shall be printed or written the words "For 
the bonds," and the words "Against the bonds," and shall indicate 
his approval or disapproval of the proposition submitted b}^ placing 
a cross-mark (X) opposite the group of words on his ballot which 
expresses his choice. In districts of the first and second classes 
there shall be printed on the l)ack of each ballot the following en- 
dorsement: "Official Ballot of School District No in the 

County of and State of Colorado," 

together with the date of the election, and a fac simile of the sig- 
nature of the secretary of the district. 

Section 6. If such question or proposition shall be submitted 
at an election for the election of school directors, the notices of the 
said election shall be included in the notices of said election, and 
the election precinct, polling-places and judges and clerks of elec- 



12 EDUCATIONAL LAWS PASSED BY THE 

tion shall be the same as for said election of school directors ; and 
the ballot of said bond election may or may not, in the discretion 
of the board of education, be deposited in the same ballot-box 
with the ballots of said election of school directors. 

Section 7. Poll books shall be prepared, used and kept under 
the same conditions and in the same manner in bond elections as is, 
or shall be required by law for elections of school directors; Pro- 
vided, that on the pages thereof whereon are to be written the 
names and addresses of electors, and between the column contain- 
ing the series of numbers of electors and the column for the names 
of the same, shall be a third column at the head of which shall be 
printed the word-s "Bond Election," in which column the judge 
or clerk of election having charge of the same shall make a cross 
or other mark, opposite the name of each elector who shall cast a 
ballot in said bond election ; Provided, further, that on one of the 
latter pages of the poll books for such bond elections shall be 
printed a blank form of certificate of return, substantially as fol- 
lows : 

"To the Board of Education of School District No 

in the County of and State of Colorado: 

At an election held at in Election 

Precinct No of said School District, on the 

day of , A. D. 19 -, at which was 

submitted the question of contracting a bonded indebtedness in 

the amount of dollars, 

there were cast : 

For the bonds votes. 

Against the bonds votes. 

The whole number of votes cast at said election was 

The number of excess ballots at said bond election was 

The number of unused ballots at said bond election was.. 

J. K., , , 

0. P., 

L. M., 

Judges. ' ' 

Attest, R. S., 
Clerk. 

Provided, That if said bond election shall be held at the same 
time as an election of school directors, the substance of the fore- 
going certificate may be combined in one certificate with the sub- 
stance of a certificate required by law of return of the results of 
said election of school directors. 

Section 8. In all school districts wherein by law it is required, 
as one of the qualifications of an elector for voting at elections of 



TWENTY-SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY, 1919 13 

school directors, that his name shall appear upon the registration 
list of the voting precinct in which he resides, no person whose 
name does not appear on such registration list, and who has not 
also paid a school tax in the school district in the year next pre- 
ceding, shall be allowed to vote on the question of contracting such 
bonded indebtedness. In such school districts and the voting pre- 
cincts thereof the registration list shall be the same in all respects, 
as that required by law for elections of school directors. In all 
such bond elections in all school districts, ballots shall be prepared 
for voting and cast in the same manner as shall then be provided 
by law for the preparation and casting of ballots at elections of 
school directors. 

Section 9. Any person offering to vote at any such bond elec- 
tion may be challenged by any qualified elector of the district, 
and thereupon the judges of election or one of them, may require 
him to answer on oath or affirmation such questions touching his 
qualifications as a voter at such bond election as they shall see fit. 
One of the judges shall administer to him an oath, which he shall 
sign, as follows: ''I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I am a 
ctizen of the United States; that I have resided in this state for 
one year immediately preceding this election, in this county ninety 
days, and in this school district thirty days ; that I am twenty-one 
years of age, and that I have not previously voted at this election, 
and that I have paid school tax within this school district in the 
year next preceding this election ; So Help me God. ' ' 

If the person so challenged shall refuse to make such oath or 
affirmation, his vote shall be rejected; and the judges may reject 
the vote of any person offering to vote, if, in their judgment, the 
said voter is not qualified according to law, whether the said voter 
takes the said oath or not. 

Section 10. The ballots cast at such bond elections shall be 
counted and canvassed at thg same time and in the same manner 
as is prescribed by law for the counting and canvassing of ballots 
cast at elections of school directors. The Board of Education shall 
enter upon the minutes of the meeting at which the canvass shall 
be made the result of the election. 

Section 11. If a majority of all votes cast are found to be 
"for the bonds" the board of education shall, from time to time, 
as the proceeds thereof shall be needed for the purposes specified in 
the notice of said bond election, issue coupon bonds of the district 
in denominations of one hundred dollars, i^YC hundred dollars, one 
thousand dollars or any multiple of one thousand dollars, or of all 
or any of such denominations, in its discretion, bearing interest 
at a rate not exooeding the maximum rate specified in the notice 
of sairl bond election, and not exceedinjr eiprht per cent, per annum 
in districts of the third class, and not exceeding six per cent, per 
annum, in districts of the first and second classes, payable either 



14 EDUCATIONAL LAWS PASSED BY THE 

annually or semi-annually in the discretion of the board, and re- 
deemable at the pleasure of the district at any time after a date 
to be fixed by said board, not less than ten nor more, than twenty 
years after the date of said bonds, and becoming due a date or 
series of dates to be fixed by said board, not more than forty years 
after the date of said bonds ; the interest thereof to be payable at 
such place or places as shall be fixed by said board and designated 
in said bonds ; Provided, that bonds which become due and payable 
in series, at diffeerent times, not less than one year apart, may or 
may not, in the discretion of said board, be redeemable, as afore- 
said, before they shall respectively become due. And, Provided 
further, that nothing herein shall be so construed as to prevent 
the issuance of serial bonds to mature in less than ten years when 
so authorized by vote of the 'electors. 

Section 12. The bonds issued under the provisions of this 
act shall be numbered consecutively, beginning with number one. 
The board of education of the district is authorized to prescribe 
the form of such bonds and the coupons thereto. Said bonds shall 
recite the title of the act under which they are issued, shall be 
signed by the president of the district, bear an impression of 
the seal of the district, attested by the signature of the secretary, 
and in districts of the third class shall be counter-signed by the 
county treasurer of the county in which such district is situated. 
The interest coupons evidencing the interest thereon shall bear 
the signature of the president of the district, which may be affixed 
by him in person, or, if so authorized by the board of education, 
may be an engraved or lithographed fac simile thereof. 

Section 13. If it shall be found to be impracticable for the 
school district to obtain for such bonds their full face value, the 
board of education of the school district may. in districts of the 
third class, when so authorized by a vote of the district, and in 
districts of the first and second classes without such authorization, 
issue such bonds and accept therefor less than their face value ; 
Provided, that the total amount of such discount plus the interest 
paid or payable on such bonds when due, shajl not be greater than 
the total amount of interest that would have been paid or be pay- 
able on such bonds when due at the maximum rate of interest 
specified in the notice of the bond election. 

Section 14. Whenever the board of education shall have . 
issued any of said bonds, it shall, at the time of certifying to the 
board of county commissioners a statement showing the amount 
necessary to raise from the taxable property of said district to 
create a special fund, as required by law, also certify to said board 
of county commissioners the amount necessary to pay all install- 
ment of principal and interest of said bonds, which according to 
their terms, shall become due and payable during the next ensuing 
fiscal year, together with such additional amount, if any, as, in the 



TWENTY-SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY, 1919 15 

judgment of the board of education, it is desirable to raise from 
the taxable property of said district for the purpose of redeeming, 
during the said ensuing fiscal year, any of said bonds which shall 
then be redeemable but not due. 

Section 15. Whenever any school district shall issue bonds 
under the provisions of this iact, it shall be the duty of the board 
of county commissioners of the county in which said district is 
situated, at the time of levying other school district taxes, to levy 
and assess a tax on all the taxable property of said district in an 
amount sufficient to pay all installments of principal and interest 
of the indebtedness thereby evidenced when the same shall become 
due, according to the terms and tenor of said bonds and interest 
coupons; and also such additional amount as shall be certified by 
the board of education of said district, for the purpose of redeem- 
ing bonds not yet due, as provided in section 14 of this Act. 

If the said bonds do not, by their terms, become due and 
payable in series at different times, the board of education of 
said school district shall, in the fiscal year next preceding the 
date fixed by said board after which said bonds are redeemable, 
at the time of certifying a statement of the amount necessary for 
a special fund, and annually thereafter until the payment of said 
bonds, certify to the board of county commissioners a statement 
showing the amount which it will be necessary to raise from the 
taxable property of said district to create a fund sufficient to pay 
and redeem such portion of the principal of said bonds as will, in 
equal annual installments, be sufficient to redeem and 'pay all of 
said bonds by the time at which they mature ; and the board of 
county commissioners shall, at the time of levying other school 
taxes, and in addition thereto, levy and assess on all the taxable 
property of said district a tax sufficient to raise the said amount 
of money. 

If the board of education shall fail to certify such a statement 
to the board of county commissioners, the board of county com- 
missioners shall, nevertheless, levy upon the taxable property of 
said district, a tax in addition to the taxes levied for other pur- 
poses, in an amount sufficient to pay all installments of principal 
and interest of said bonds that shall become due during the next 
ensuing fiscal year, or, if said bonds do not becoine due and pay- 
able in series at different times, in an amount sufficient to pay all 
installments of interest then to become due and the aforesaid por- 
tion of principal. 

Section 16. The county treasurer shall collect the same as 
other taxes are collected, in cash only, keeping the same separate 
from other funds received by him, which amount when collected 
shall be turned over to the treasurer of such school district upon 
orders signed and oountersignod in the mnnner provided by law 
for the execution of other school district orrlors. Such money shall 
be used only in the payment a)id rcdempliori of such bonds, and 



16 EDUCATIONAL LAWS PASSED BY THE 

such payment and redemption shall be made in the numerical order 
of said bonds, beginning with bond numbered one, in the follow- 
ing manner: The treasurer of said school district, immediately 
after so receiving sufficient money therefor, shall advertise in some 
newspaper published in the county in which said school district is 
located, if any there be, and if not, in a newspaper published near- 
est the county seat of said county, once a week for four consecu- 
tive weeks, that on a certian day, named in said advertisement, not 
more than five weeks after the time of the first publication thereof , 
he will pay or redeem certain of said bonds therein described by 
number, amount and date of issue thereof, and shall give notice in 
said advertisement that after the day so fixed for payment, the in- 
terest on the bonds described as aforesaid shall cease. After the 
day of payment so fixed in said notice the bonds so advertised and 
called to be paid shall cease to draw interest. In all districts, ex- 
cept districts having a school population of more than thirty thou- 
sand, the said payments shall be made at the office and in the 
presence of the county treasurer of the county, who shall make a 
minute of such payment on his books. In school districts having a 
school population of more than thirty thousand such payment shall 
be made by the district treasurer or by any bank or bankers author- 
ized by the board of education to make such payment. In all 
cases bonds when paid shall be cancelled by the district treasurer 
and preserved by him and his successors for a period of five years 
after the date of the payment of all bonds issued by authority of 

such elections. 

• 

Section 17. Whenever any school district shall issue bonds 
under the provisions of this act, the board of education shall make 
and enter in and upon its records a request that the county clerk 
and recorder of the county wherein such school district is situated 
register the bonds in a book to be kept by him for that purpose; 
and when so registered, the legality thereof shall not be open to 
contest by such district, or any person or corporation in behalf of 
such district for any reason whatever ; and a certified copy of the 
order of the board, so made and entered of record, shall be fur- 
nished to the said county clerk and recorder by the said board 
of education, and thereupon it shall be his duty to register said 
bonds, noting the name of the district, and the amount, the date of 
issuance and maturity and rate of interest of said bonds. He 
shall receive a fee of ten cents for registering each bond. 

Section 18. Chapter 205 of the Session Laws of Colorado of 
1908, being an act entitled ''An act to enable school districts of 
this state to contract a bonded indebtedness for the purpose of 
erecting and furnishing school buildings, purchasing grounds and 
funding debts, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict 
herewith," and all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent here- 
with are hereby repealed ; Provided, that the repeal of said acts 
and parts of acts shall in no wise affect any bonds issued there- 



TWENTY-SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY, 1919 17 

under. Any and all proceedings heretofore had, or which are 
now being had or carried forward under the act hereby repealed, 
or any or either of them, may be carried forward, completed or 
consummated under this act and bonds contemplated by such pro- 
cedure may be issued in the form and with the terms and accord- 
ing to the provisions of this act. 



CENSUS 



To Provide for Obtaining Information Concerning All Persons of 

School Age, the Administration of Oaths or Affirmations in 

Connection Therewith, and for a Record of Such 

Information 

Section 1. All persons who are now or may hereafter be 
authorized or appointed to take the school census, shall ascertain 
and record the names, place, date of birth, school grade last at- 
tended, and nationality of the parents, of each child enumerated. 
The person taking such school census is hereby authorized, em- 
powered and directed to require such parent, guardian or other 
person having charge or control of such child, to subscribe or to 
take oath or affirmation that such information or record is true 
and correct, and any parent, guardian, or person having control 
of any child, who shall refuse to take such oath or affirmation shall 
be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be 
fined in any sum not less than one dollar or more than ten dollars. 
The census enumerator is hereby empowered to administer such 
oath or affirmation. 



CHILD WELFARE 

To Create and Establish a Child Welfare Bureau, Defining Its 
Duties and Making an Appropriation Therefor 

Section 1. There is hereby created a Child Welfare Bureau 
under the control of the Department of Public Instruction. Said 
Bureau shall be responsible for the promotion of community or- 
ganization in every county in the State. The work of these parent 
and teacher groups shall be : 

(1) To secure wiser and bettor trained parenthood, but the 
commission shall use none of the appropriation under this act for 
the teaching of sex hygiene in the public schools, nor shall such 
teaching be done by any one connected with said commission in the 
public schools ; 

(2) To bring into closer relation the home and the school 
in order that parent and teacher may better co-operate in the 
education of the child ; 



18 EDUCATIONAL LAWS PASSED BY THE 

(S) To assist in the Americanization of the home of the 
foreigner ; 

(4) To distribute helpful literature pertaining to the care 
and rearing of the child; 

(5) To cultivate such a healthy and happy childhood as 
shall insure the development of an ideal, citizenship for the State 
of Colorado. 

Sec. 2. Said Bureau shall be furnished a properly equipped 
office in the State Capitol Building. 

Sec. 3. Said Child Welfare Bureau shall be managed by a 
Board of Control consisting of five members, who shall serve with- 
out pay, three of whom shall be appointed by the Governor and 
two by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and shall be 
appointed from a list of names which shall be submitted to said 
officials by the Executive Committee of the Colorado Congress of 
Mothers and Parent Teachers Association ; the term of office of said 
Board of Control shall be five years or until the successor of each 
member shall be appointed and qualified; Provided, however, that 
the first in order of appointment shall be by the Governor and 
shall serve for one year ; the second shall be by the Superintendent 
of Public Instruction and shall serve for two years ; the third shall 
be by the Governor and shall serve for three years ; the fourth shall 
be by the Superintendent of Public Instruction and shall serve for 
four years; and the fifth shall be by the Governor and shall serve 
for five years. 

Sec. 4. The Directors of the Child Welfare Bureau shall have 
general supervision of all the work of the Bureau as indicated in 
Section 1 of this act. Public school buildings shall be used as 
community centers and meeting places for the purpose of this act. 

Sec. 5. There is hereby appropriated from the^moneys in the 
Treasury of the State of Colorado not otherwise appropriated the 
sum of four thousand dollars for the year 1919, and a like amount 
for the year 1920, for the purpose of defraying the incidental 
expenses of the Bureau, including traveling expenses. 

Sec. 6. If any part, section, subsection, sentence, clause or 
phrase of this act, is for any reason held to be unconstitutional, or 
otherwise invalid, such decision shall not affect the validity of the 
remaining portions of this act. The General Assembly hereby de- 
clares that it would have passed this act and each part, section, 
subsection, sentence, clause or phrase, irrespective of the fact that 
any one or more other parts, section, subsection, sentence, clauses 
or phrases be declared unconstitutional. 



TWENTY-SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY, 1919 19 

CONSOLIDATION 

Relating to the Consolidation of Adjoining School Districts 
of the First Class 

Section 1. When a majority of the electors of each school 
district of the first class, voting on the question, shall vote in favor 
of the consolidation of two or more adjoining school districts of 
the first class, then the members of the board of directors of that 
school district which has the largest school population, as shown 
by the last school census, shall become and be held to be the direc- 
tors of such consolidated district until their respective terms of 
office have expired; Provided, that there shall be elected at each 
general school election after such consolidation, such directors of 
said district as is now, or may hereafter be provided by law. 

Section 2. Where the boundaries of two or more school dis- 
tricts of the first class, which have been consolidated under the 
laws of the State of Colorado, contain two or more suitable school 
buildings which are used for school purposes, then the board of 
directors of the consolidated district shall have the right to furnish 
transportation to and from any one of such school buildings to 
any pupils living one or more miles from any school building, 
whenever such board of directors deems it best so to do, but such 
consolidated district shall not be required to furnish such trans- 
portation if, in the judgment of the board of directors, it is not 
expedient so to do. 

Section 3. When two or more school districts of the first class 
shall vote in favor of a consolidation, then the consolidated school 
district shall immediately become the owner of and entitled to re- 
ceive, hold, sue for and collect all moneys, funds, property, real 
estate and assets of any and every kind or nature owned by or 
becoming due to any of the said school districts so consolidated, and 
the outstanding bonds, school warrants, debts, liabilities and other 
obligations of each school district of the first class which becomes 
a part of such consolidated district shall be paid and discharged in 
manner following: All of said bonded and other debts and liabili- 
ties of each of said school districts of the first class shall be paid by 
tlie school district of the first class owing the same by special tax- 
levied from time to time as may be necessary by the board of 
directors of said consolidated school district, which special tax 
shall be levied upon the property within the boundaries of the 
school district of the first class owing said indebtedness as said 
boundaries existed when such school district becomes a part of 
such consolidated school district; Provided., however, that when 
any of said bonds has matured or may hereafter mature or become 
redeemable at the pleasure of the said school district owing the 
same, then the said school district of the. first class owincr the same 
may issue new or refunding bonds for the payment thereof ac- 



20 EDUCATIONAL LAWS PASSED BY THE 

cording to the law now or hereafter enforced relating to the issue 
of refunding bonds by the school district of the first class and in 
all the proceedings concerning the issue of such refunding bonds 
the board of directors of the school district of the first class issu- 
ing such refunding bonds. 



COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT 

Section 13. County Superintendents of Schools in the several 
counties of this state shall receive as their compensation for their 
services rendered an annual salary, to be paid monthly out of the 
general fund, as follows: 

First Class, '' Division A"— Salary, $3,000; Pueblo, "Weld. 
First Class, "Division B"— Salary, $2,800; Boulder, El Paso, 

Larimer, Las Animas. 
Second Class^ — Salary, $2,000; Adams, Fremont, Garfield, 

Huerfano, Mesa, Otero. 
Third Class — Salary, $1,500; Arapahoe, Chaffee, Cheyenne, 

Crowley, Delta, Douglas, Elbert, Gunnison, Jefferson, Kit 

Carson, La Plata, Lincoln, Logan, Montrose, Morgan, 

Phillips, Prowers, Routt, Washington, Yuma. 
Fourth Class — Salary, $1,100; Alamosa, Baca, Bent, Clear 

Creek, Conejos, Costilla, Eagle, Gilpin, Jackson, Kiowa, 

Lake, Montezuma, Ouray, Park, Rio Blanco, Rio Grande, 

San Miguel, Saguache and Teller. 
Fifth Class^ — Salary, $900; Archuleta, Custer, City and 

County of Denver, Grand, Moffat, Sedgwick, Summit, 

Pitkin. 
Sixth Class — Salary, $500 ; Mineral, San Juan. 
Seventh Class — Salary, $100 ; Dolores, Hinsdale. 

The Board of County Commissioners shall also allow the 
County Superintendents mileage, not to exceed ten cents per mile, 
for the distances actually and necessarily traveled in the perform- 
ance of their duty, not to exceed $300 per annum. 



DIRECTORS 

Relative to the Powers and Duties of School District Officers, and 

Amending Sections 5920, 5934, 5935, and 5940 of the Revised 

Statutes of Colorado, of 1908, as Amended by Chapter 

201, of the Session Laws of Colorado, of 1911, and 

Chapter 121 of the Session Laws of Colorado 

of 1917 

Section 1. That Section 5922 of the Revised Statutes of 
Colorado be and the same is hereby so amended as to read as 
follows : 



T^WENTY-SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY, 1919 21 

The directors shall each within twenty days after his or her 
election appear before some officer authorized to administer oaths, 
and take an oath that he or she will faithfully perform the duties 
of his or her office required by law, and will support the constitu- 
tion of the United States, the constitution of the State of Colorado, 
and the laws made pursuant thereto, which oath may be admin- 
istered by the county superintendent or by the president of the 
board, and which oath shall be filed with the county superintend- 
ent ; and in case of failure to so qualify within said period, his or 
her office shall be deemed vacant and the vacancy thus created 
shall be filled in the same manner as other vacancies in the office of 
director. 

If the amount of money liable to come into the hands of the 
treasurer in the discharge of his official duties exceeds twenty dol- 
lars at any one time, he shall, except in school districts having a 
school population of more than 30,000, give bond in double the 
amount of money liable to come into his hands, which amount shall 
be determined by the board of education, which bond shall be ap- 
proved by and filed with the county superintendent. In school 
districts having a school population of more than 30,000', the 
funds of the school district, immediately after their receipt by the 
district treasurer shall be deposited to the credit . of the school 
district in a depository or depositories designated by the board of 
education. Each of such depositories shall be required to give 
bond with sureties approved by the county superintendent, in 
such sum, or sums as shall be fixed by the board of education, 
which bond or bgnds shall be conditioned for the payment of all 
sums so deposited upon demand of the school district; and the 
treasurer shall not deposit in any such depository, at any time, a 
sum greater than the amount of the bond of that depository. 
Provided, that the district may from time to time require such 
depository or depositories to give additional bond, conditioned in 
like manner to cover additional amounts to be deposited with it or 
them. In such districts the treasurer shall give bond in the sum 
to be fixed by the board of education, not less than 125 per cent, 
of the amount of money liable to be paid to him for deposit as 
aforesaid at any one time, which bond shall be approved by and 
filed with the county superintendent. The treasurer of any school 
district of any class who shall fail or refuse to give bond as above 
when required to do so by the board shall be disqualified from re- 
ceiving any money on account of the district until such bond is 
executed and filed, and if such failure shall continue for more than 
thirty days after such bond has been ordered by the board, the 
office of treasurer shall be deemed vacant and the vacancy so 
created shall be filled in the same manner as other vacancies. The 
treasurer of all first class districts shall publish, semi-annually in 
some newspaper pubJished within the county wherein such district 
is located, a complete and full report of all receipts and expendi- 
tures of the said district's funds. 



22 EDUCATIONAL LAWS PASSED BY THE 

Section 2. That section 5934 of the Revised Statutes of Colo- 
rado of 1908, as amended by Chapter 121 of the Session Laws of 
Colorado of 1917, be and the same is hereby so amended as to read 
as follows: 

The president when present shall preside at all the meetings 
of the board and of the district. He shall sign all orders on the 
county treasurer and on the district treasurer for the payment of 
money. Provided, that in districts having a school population of 
more than 30,000 the signature of the president may be affixed to 
orders on the district treasurer by the vice-president, if there be 
one, or any person not an officer designated by the president for 
that purpose with the approval of the board, which person, other 
than the vice-president, shall give bond in the same amount as is 
required of the district treasurer, which bond shall be approved 
by and filed with the county superintendent. 

Except in districts having a school population of more than 
30,000, no orders shall be drawn on the county treasurer except in 
favor of parties to whom the district has become lawfully indebted. 
In districts having a school population of more than 30,000 the 
funds of the district shall be held and distributed by the district 
treasurer to persons to whom the district shall have become law- 
fully indebted, in accordance with the orders of the board. 

In districts of the second and third classes, in the absence of 
the president, the secretary shall preside at board and district 
meetings. In districts of the first class the board may elect one 
of their members vice-president. In such cases the vice-president 
in the absence of the president shall preside at board and district 
meetings. In case of the absence or inability of the president to 
perform any of his duties, or in case of his refusal to do so when 
so ordered by the board, or at any time, with his approval, the 
board of education may delegate to the vice-president, and he 
shall thereupon be empowered to perform such duties of the presi- 
dent as shall be so delegated to him. 

Absence from the district of any director or officer of the 
district, without leave of the board entered upon the minutes, when 
prolonged beyond thirty consecutive days, may be held to work 
a vacancy in said office when so declared by the vote of three- 
fourths of the remaining members of the board, and such vacancy 
shall be filled as other vacancies are filled. 

Section 3. That Section 5935 of the Revised Statutes of Colo- 
rado of 1908, as amended by Chapter 201 of the Session Laws of 
Colorado of 1911, be and the same is hereby so amended as to read 
as follows : 

Before entering upon the duties of his office, the secretary 
shall execute a bond with two individual sureties or one surety 
company as surety in the sum of five hundred dollars, or such 
greater sum as the board may require in districts of the first and 
second classes, and in the sum of one hundred dollars in districts 



TWENTY-SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY, 1919 23 

of the third class, conditioned for the faithful discharge of his 
official duties and the delivery of all property pertaining to his 
office to his successor, within ten days after a demand is made for 
the same by a qualified successor, which bond shall be approved 
by and filed with the county superintendent. In districts having 
a school population of more than thirty thousand the board of 
education may, in its discretion, appoint an assistant secretary, who 
shall hold such position during the pleasure of the board, and who 
shall give bond in like sum and with like conditions as the secre- 
tary, and who, in the absence or inability of the secretary to per- 
form any of his duties, shall perform all the duties of the secretary, 
and to whom at any time with the approval of the board, the secre- 
tary may delegate the performance of any of his duties. 

The secretary shall record all proceedings of the board and 
the district meetings in a book or books to be kept for that purpose ; 
shall preserve copies of all reports made to the state or county 
superintendent; shall file all papers transmitted to him by other 
school officers pertaining to the district; shall draw and counter- 
sign all warrants or orders issued by the board ; shall keep a register 
or stub of all orders drawn, showing the number of the order, the 
date, amount, in whose favor and for what purpose drawn. Imme- 
diately after the election of one or more directors, according to law, 
he shall transmit to the county superintendent a statement giving 
the name, the postoffice address of the president, secretary, treas- 
urer and vice-president and assistant secretary, if such there be, 
respectively, of the board of education. 

Between the tenth day of February and the first day of March 
of each year, the secretary, or some person authorized by him, shall 
take the census of all persons over six years and under twenty-one 
years of age, who were bona fide residents of the district on the 
tenth day of February aforesaid. The names so listed shall be 
arranged alphabetically, and shall be so classified as to distinguish 
between male and female. The board of education may, in its dis- 
cretion, direct that other information concerning such persons be 
included in such census lists. The census lists shall be sworn to 
as correct by the persons taking the same. If such persons be other 
than the secretary, the secretary may administer such oath. The 
list shall be certified by the secretary and shall be forwarded to the 
county superintendent on or before the first day of April. In 
districts of the first and second class a copy shall be delivered to 
the principal, teacher or superintendent of the district, and in 
all cases, a copy shall be retained in the office of the secretary. 

Section 4. That section 5940 of the Revised Statutes of Colo- 
rado of 1908, as amended by Chapter 121 of the Sesison Laws of 
Colorado of 1917, be and the same is hereby so amended as to read 
as follows: 

It shall be the duty of the treasurer to countersign all lawful 
warrants drawn by the president and secretary on the county 



24 EDUCATIONAL LAWS PASSED BY THE 

treasurer, and to keep an account of the same. He shall take 
charge of all monies received by him on account of the district and 
pay out the same according to law. In school districts having a 
school population of more than 30,000 he shall pay out monies in 
his hands upon lawful orders drawn and countersigned by the 
secretary and signed by the president. In such districts if the legal 
warrant of the district be presented to him when there are no funds 
in his hands to the credit of the district fund against which the 
warant is drawn, he shall endorse or cause to be endorsed upon such 
warrant the words ''no funds" together with his signature or a 
facsimile thereof, and the date of such presentment, and the said 
warrant shall draw interest from the date of such endorsement 
at the same rate as county warrants in like condition. 

In all districts the treasurer shall render a statement of the 
finances of the district as shown by the records of his office at the 
close of each school year, and at any other time, when required by 
the board. 

For a failure to perform any of the duties of his office, 
when directed by the board or for refusing or neglecting to deliver 
to his legally qualified successor all money, books or other district 
property in his possession or care, within ten days after the same 
shall have been demanded by such successor, he shall be liable on 
his bond, and shall make good any loss resulting to the district 
from such failure or neglect. 



ELECTIONS 
Amending 5918, 5919, R. S. 1908 

5918. The regular election for electing members of school 
boards or boards of education shall be held biennially in each 
school district of the first class, and annually in each school dis- 
trict of the second and third classes on the first Monday in May, 
beginning with the year 1911; at which time it shall be lawful 
in school districts of the third class to transact any business per- 
taining to schools and school interests. 

The secretary of each school board shall cause written or 
printed notices to be posted, specifying the day and place or 
places of such election, the boundaries of election precincts, if 
any, and the time during which the ballot box or boxes shall be 
kept open not less, however, than three hours in districts of the 
second and third classes, and further specifying at what hour and 
place any other business shall be transacted. In districts of the 
first class the ballot boxes shall be kept open from seven o'clock 
a. m. to seven o'clock p. m. Said notices shall be posted in at 
least three public places in the district and additionally at each 
school house at least twenty days prior to the time of election ; and 
in districts of the first class, said notice shall be published weekly 



TWENTY-SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY, 1919 25 

for the four weeks next preceding such election, in some newspa- 
per published in the district, and if there be no paper published in 
such district, then a paper published in an adjoining district; pro- 
vided that in those districts having a school population of more 
than three thousand, the said notice shall be posted as aforesaid, 
at least four weeks previous to the time of election, and published 
in a newspaper, as aforesaid, once each week for a period of four 
weeks next preceding such election. If the secretary shall fail 
to give such notice, then any two legal voters residing in the dis- 
trict may give such notice over their names, and such election may 
be held after the day fixed by this act for such election. 

5919. Every elector qualified to vote at a general election, 
having been a resident of the school district for thirty days next 
preceding the date of election shall be entitled to vote at school 
elections, provided that he has been first duly registered as here- 
inafter provided in this act, for districts having a school popula- 
tion of more than three thousand. 

In districts of the first and second classes any person who 
may desire to be a candidate for the office of school director shall 
file a written notice of such intention with the secretary of the 
school district in which he resides at least eight days prior to the 
date for the holding of the election of school directors ; provided 
that, in districts of the first class, the said candidate or candidates, 
in addition to filing such written notice, shall also file a certificate 
of nomination signed by not less than fifty qualified electors of 
said district, which certificate of nomination shall contain the 
name of the office for which each person or persons is nominated, 
and his postoffice address, place of residence, and if in a city, the 
street number of his place of residence and place of business. 
Each of the electors signing the same shall add to his signature 
his place of residence. The secretary of the said school district 
shall for five consecutive days preceding the day of said election, 
publish in some daily newspaper published in said district, or, 
when no daily newspaper is published in said district, then by 
posting a printed or written notice in not less than five public 
places in such district and at each school house in such district 
the names of all candidates who shall have been nominated as 
above provided. 

In districts of the first class having a school population of 
more than three thousand, the said secretary shall have printed 
ballots prepared bearing the names of all candidates so nominated, 
which names shall be arranged in alphabetical order, according 
to the surnames of the candidates; and on the ballot shall be 
printed such words as will indicate the number of directors or 
members of the board of education to be elected. All such ballots 
shall be uniform in every respect and of sufficient length and 
width to allow all the names of the candidates to be printed in 
clear, plain type and so as to give each elector an opportunity 



26 EDUCATIONAL LAWS PASSED BY THE 

to designate by a cross-mark (X) in a sufficient marg:in at the 
right of the name of each candidate, his choice of candidates. 
There shall be printed on the back of each ballot the following 
endorsement : 

''Official Ballot of School District No 

in the County of and State of Colorado/' 

together with the date of the election and a facsimile of the 
signature of the secretary of the school district. 

In school districts having a school population of more than 
three thousand, no person shall hereafter be permitted to vote at 
any school election, without first having been registered in the 
manner required by the provisions of this act. 

Any person possessing all the qualifications of an elector in 
any school district, whose name appears upon the registration 
list made according to law, by the county clerk of the county in 
which the school election precinct in which such person resides is 
situated, ten days preceding any school election in such district 
shall be entitled to vote at such school election. 

In school districts having a school population of more than 
three thousand, any person possessing all the qualifications of an 
elector whose name does not appear upon the registration list of 
the voting precinct, in which he resides, made according to law 
for the next preceding general election of county officers in his 
county, may, not less than ten days, nor more than thirty days 
prior to the time of any school election, appear before the county 
clerk of the county in which he resides, or if the district is not 
located in the county seat, appear before the secretary of the 
school board of the district in which he resides, and, upon making 
oath before said county clerk or district secretary of his qualifi- 
cations as an elector, and answering to said county clerk or dis- 
trict secretary all the questions required by law to be answered 
for registration for a general election, cause his name to be placed 
upon the registration list for such school election by said county 
clerk or district secretary. 

The county clerk of each county wherein there shall be one 
or more school districts having a school population of more than 
three thousand (3,000), shall, prior to the time of holding any 
election in said school district, make a full and complete copy of 
the registration list of the qualified voters of each school election 
precinct, as the same shall be designated and bounded by the 
board of directors or board of education of any such school dis- 
trict having a school population of more than three thousand, 
which list shall contain the names of the qualified electors, accord- 
ing to the registration list made for the next preceding general 
election of county officers, together with such changes as shall have 
been made therein according to law prior to ten days preceding 
the time of such school election, and such changes, additions and 
amendments as shall have been made by county clerk in making 



TWENTY-SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY, 1919 27 

new registrations, as provided by this act, and shall certify the 
same under his hand and official seal and shall deliver the same 
to the secretary of such school district not less than five days 
prior to the time of holding of such election. 

The said school district shall pay to the county clerk, as his fee 
for making and certifying the said registration list, the sum of one 
cent for each and every name therein contained or added thereto 
by new registration ; provided, that, upon the request of the board 
of directors, made at the time of certifying the boundaries of 
school election precincts, the county clerk shall, in the registration 
list of such school election precincts as shall be designated by the 
board of directors for that purpose, arrange the names therein al- 
phabetically according to the first two letters of the surnames of 
each elector named therein, and shall be paid for so arranging 
the same an additional fee of one cent for each name in that portion 
of the registration list so arranged. 

In districts of the first and second classes the board of directors 
or board of education may, not less than five weeks prior to the 
time of the holding of any school election, divide the district into 
such number of election precincts as they shall see fit and fix the 
boundaries of the same, and in each case they shall designate one 
voting place in each of said election precincts, provided that said 
board may at any time before the day of election change the lo- 
cation of the voting place in the election precinct, and in case of 
such change shall post notices thereof at both the original and newly 
selected polling places. Immediately upon so dividing said dis- 
tricts the secretary of any school district having a school popula- 
tion of more than three thousand shall certify to the county clerk of 
the county in which the said district is situated, the limits and 
boundaries of said election precinct. Whenever the board of di- 
rectors or board of education shall divide a district into election 
precincts they shall, prior to' the time of holding such election, 
appoint three judges, and in their discretion one clerk, for each of 
the said election precincts, each of whom shall be a qualified elector 
of the school election precinct for which he is appointed, who 
shall not be a member of the school board. 

In school districts of the third class, the directors or mombors 
of the board of education shall act as judges, and each voter shall 
prepare his own ballot by writing the name of the candidate or 
candidates for whom he wishes to vote on a piece of paper. 

In case one or more judges, or the clerk of election shall be 
absent at the time and place stated in the notice for the opening 
of the polls and ballot boxes, one or more duly qualified electors 
shall be chosen by viva voce vote of the qualified electors present to 
fill the vacancy or vacancies. 

Any person offering to vote at any school election in any dis- 
trict may be challenged by any legally qualified elector of the 
district, and thereupon the judges of election or one of them may 



28 EDUCATIONAL LAWS PASSED BY THE 

require him to answer, under oath, such questions touching his 
qualifications as a voter as they see fit. One of the judges shall 
administer to him an oath, as follows : 

''I do solemnly swear or affirm that I am a citizen of the 
United States; that I have resided in this State for one year im- 
mediately preceding this election ; in this county ninety days and 
in this school district thirty days; that I am twenty-one years of 
age, and that I have not previously voted at this election, so help 
me God." 

If the person so challenged shall refuse to make such oath or 
affirmation, his vote shall be rejected, and the judges may reject the 
vote of any person offering to vote, if in their judgment the said 
voter is not qualified according to law, whether the said voter takes 
the said oath or not. Each candidate voted upon at any school 
election in any school district shall have the right to appoint in each 
school election precinct any person who is a qualified elector of 
such school district, to remain within the polling places during the 
casting and counting of votes and the declaration of the result 
thereof. Such watcher may also act as challenger when there is 
reason to believe that any person about to vote is not entitled to 
vote at such election precinct. If any elector shall vote more than 
once, or having voted once shall offer to vote again at any school 
election, or shall deposit or offer to deposit in the ballot box at any 
school election more than one ballot, he shall be deemed guilty of 
a crime, and upon conviction thereof, he shall be fined not less 
than fifty dollars, and shall be imprisoned in the county jail for 
not less than three months. 

Prior to the time of any school election, the secretary of each 
school district of the first class shall provide ballot boxes and 
cause to be prepared two duplicate poll-books for each voting 
place in his district. On the first page of said poll-books shall be 
printed a blank form of oath, to be taken by each of the judges of 
election, and the clerk (if any), substantially as follows: 

''I, -— - do solemnly swear (or 

affirm), that I will perform the duties of judge (or clerk) of 
election according to law, and to the best of my ability ; that I will 
studiously endeavor to prevent fraud, deceit and abuse in conduct- 
ing same ; that I will not try to ascertain how any electors shall 
vote, and if in the discharge of my duties such knowledge comes 
to me, I will not disclose the same unless required to do so in some 
court of justice, so help me God." 

Subscribed and sworn to before me this day of 

, A. D 



Judge (or Clerk)." 

The said oath shall be taken and subscribed by each of the 
judges and the clerk (if any), of election before any voters shall 



TWENTY-SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY, 1919 29 

be received. Any of the judges of election shall have the power 
and authority to administer said oath. 

The next succeeding several pages of said poll-books shall con- 
tain in one column, a series of numbers, beginning with the num- 
ber one, and in an adjoining column, spaces opposite said numbers, 
in which a judge (or clerk) of election shall write the names and 
addresses of the electors as they respectively present themselves 
for voting. On one of the latter pages of said poll-books shall be 
printed a blank form of certificate of return, substantially as 
follows : 

''To the Board of Education of School District No 

in the County of in the State of Colorado: 

At an election held at in election 

precinct No of said school district on the 

day of ., A. D , the following named 

persons received respectively the number of votes placed opposite 
their names for the office of director or member of the board of 
education of said school district, to-wit: 

A. B, received votes 

C. D. received votes 

E. F. received votes 

G. H. received , votes 

The whole number of votes cast was 

The number of excess ballots was 

The number of unused ballots 

Attest: J. K. 

. R. S. 0. P. 

Clerk. L. M. 

Judges." 

In school districts having a school population of more than 
three thousand, when any elector appears for voting he shall give 
his name and place of residence to one of the judges. If his name 
shall be found on the registration list, and if the judges shall be 
satisfied that he is a qualified elector, his name and address shall 
be entered by the judge or clerk of election having charge of 
the poll-books in the column prepared for that purpose provided 
that it shall be entered in each poll-book opposite the same num- 
ber. Another judge shall thereupon write on the back of a blank 
ballot with ink, or indelible pencil the number opposite that elec- 
tor's name in the poll-book, together with his (the judge's) in- 
itials, and shall hand the ballot to the elector, who shall retire 
with it within the enclosure and prepare it for casting by marking 
a cross (X) opposite the names of those candidates for whom he 
desires to vote, or by drawing a line or lines through the names 



30 EDUCATIONAL LAWS PASSED BY THE 

of those candidates for whom he does not wish to vote or by other- 
wise indicating his choice. After having prepared his ballot, the 
elector shall return the same to the judge from whom he received 
it, so folded as to expose the number and initials written on the 
back thereof by the judge, but not disclose the marks on the face 
thereof indicating the elector's vote. That judge shall examine 
the number and the initials on the back of said ballot, and if they 
indicate that it is the same one which was issued to the elector, 
the judge shall again write his initials on the back of the same, 
and return it to the elector, who shall deposit it in the ballot-box. 
The clerk of election may perform any of the duties of judge ex- 
cept the administering of oaths and passing upon the qualifica- 
tions of voters and the legality, construction and interpretation of 
ballots. 

Provided, however, that at all elections held for voting upon 
a proposition to create or contract a debt by loan for the pur- 
pose of erecting or furnishing school buildings, or purchasing 
school grounds, only such qualified electors of the district shall 
vote thereat, as shall have paid a school tax in such district for 
the year next preceding such election. 

If any person shall falsely personate a voter and shall vote 
under the name of such voter he shall be deemed guilty of a crime 
and upon conviction thereof, he shall be fined not less than fifty 
dollars and shall be imprisoned in the county jail for not less than 
three months. 

It shall be unlawful for any person to electioneer or attempt 
to influence any elector to refrain from voting, or to vote in any 
particular manner, within 100 feet of the entrance to the polling 
place during the time that the polling place is open for the casting 
of votes. 

It shall be unlawful for any person directly or indirectly by 
himself or through any other person : 

(a) To pay, loan or contribute, or offer or promise to pay, 
loan or contribute, any money or other valuable consideration to 
or for any voter to vote or refrain from voting at any school elec- 
tin provided by law, or to induce any voter to vote or to refrain 
from voting at such election for any particular person or persons, 
or to induce such voter to go to the polls, or remain away from 
the polls at such election, or on account of such voter having voted 
or refrained from voting for any particular person, or having 
sfone to the polls or remained away from the polls at such elec- 
tion. 

(b) To give, offer or promise any office, place or employment 
or to promise or procure or endeavor to procure any office, place 
or employment, to or for any voter, or to or for any other person, 
in order to induce such voter to vote or refrain from voting at any 
school election provided by law, or induce any voter to vote or 
refrain from voting at such election for any particular person or 
persons. 



TWENTY-SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY, 1919 31 

(c) To advance or pay, or cause to be paid, any money or 
valuable thing to or for the use of any person, with the intent 
that the same or any part thereof shall be used in bribery at any 
school election provided by law, or to knowingly pay or cause 
to be paid any money or other valuable thing to any person in 
discharging or repayment of any money, wholly or in part, ex- 
pended in bribery at any such election. 

Any person convicted of any of the offenses mentioned in 
paragraphs (a), (b), and (c) of this act shall be punished by a 
fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dol- 
lars, or imprisonment in the county jail for not less than six, 
months, nor more than one year, or by both fine and imprisonment. 

If any elector at any school election shall be guilty of wil- 
ful and corrupt false swearing or affirmation by any oath or af- 
firmation prescribed by law in the conduct of such election, such 
person shall be deemed guilty of perjury and upon conviction 
thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars, 
or to exceed five hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the county 
jail not to exceed one year. 

If any judge or clerk of a school election shall knowingly 
and wilfully permit any person to vote at any school election who 
is not entitled to vote thereat, or shall knowingly and wilfully 
permit any persons to vote more than once at such election, or 
shall knowingly and wilfully permit any person to deposit more 
than one ballot in the ballot box at such election, or shall be guilty 
of any fraud in the conduct of any such election, or shall know- 
ingly permit the commission of any fraud or deceit on the part 
of any other person in the conduct of such election, such judge 
or clerk shall be deemed guilty of a crime, and upon conviction 
thereof shall be fined not less than fifty dollars and shall be im- 
prisoned in the county jail for not less than three months. 



ENGLISH LANGUAGE 

To Amend Section 6010 of the Revised Statutes of 1908, 
Concerning Public Schools 

Section 6010. Instruction in the common brandies of study 
in the public elementary schools of this state shall be conducted 
throufrh the medium of the English language only, nor shall any 
other than the EnpfHsh language be taught as a separate and dis- 
tinct branch of itself. 

During the time that the public schools of the district in 
which he is a resident are in session, no child of school age who 
has not completed the oijrhth grade shall be permitted to attend 
any school where the common branches are not taught in the 
English language. 



32 EDUCATIONAL LAWS PASSED BY THE 

LOANS 

To Create and Establish a Colorado State Educational Loan Fund 

for Honorably Discharged Soldiers and Sailors and to Make 

An Appropriation Therefor 

Section 1. There is hereby created from the public moneys 
of the State of Colorado a fund to be known as the Colorado 
State Educational Loan Fund, to be devoted to loans, as herein- 
after provided, to assist in the vocational, or other educational 
training of returning, and honorably discharged soldiers and sail- 
ors who shall have been in the military service of the United 
States during the years 1917 and 1918, or either of them. 

Section 2. There is hereby appropriated out of the moneys 
in the treasury of the State of Colorado, not otherwise appropri- 
ated, the sum of two hundred thousand dollars, which shall be 
placed by the State Treasurer in a fund to be known as the Colo- 
rado State Educational Loan Fund and disbursed by the State 
Treasurer as hereinafter provided. 

Section 3. Any citizen of Colorado, who has served in the 
army or navy forces of the United States Government in any ca- 
pacity during the period of the war between the United States 
of America and the German Empire, may make application to a 
board composed of the Governor, the State Treasurer and the 
State Superintendent of Public Instruction, who shall together be 
known as the State Educational Loan Board, for a loan in an 
amount not exceeding two hundred dollars in any one case; to 
be used strictly for the expenses of the vocational or other educa- 
tion and training of such applicant in any school or educational 
institution of the State of Colorado. Said Board shall carefully 
consider the personal fitness and character of such applicant and 
shall satisfy itself of the full honesty of purpose and earnestness 
of such applicant in the matter, and thereupon said Board may, 
at its discretion, direct that a sum not exceeding two hundred dol- 
lars shall be loaned to such applicant as is found worthy upon a 
promissory note of such applicant, payable to the State treasury 
of the State of Colorado on or before five years from the date 
thereof, with legal interest thereon from and after three years 
from the date of such note, and the Auditor of State shall draw, 
and the Treasurer of State shall pay warrants therefor upon 
vouchers certified by the Governor. 



RETIREMENT FUND 

Section 1. Tbe Board of Education in any first-class district 
is hereby authorized to establish a Public School Teachers' Retire- 
ment Fund, and shall be authorized to pay out of such fund a 
sum not to exceed $50.00 per month to any man teacher who shall 



TWENTY-SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY, 1919 33 

have attained the age of sixty years while in the service of said 
school district, or to any woman who shall have attained the age 
of fifty-five years while in the service of said school district, and 
who has also been in active service as a teacher for a period of 
twenty-five years, of which not less than fifteen years shall have 
been within said school district. 

Sec. 2. The Board of Education of any such school district 
may also make provision not exceeding the above amounts to 
such teachers as shall have become permanently incapacitated 
from teaching while in the service of the district; Provided, how- 
ever, that the said beneficiary shall have served in the said school 
district for a period of not less than ten years. 

Sec. 3. Any teacher of such school district coming under the 
provisions of this Act who may by making application or by ac- 
tion of the Board of Education be entitled to receive the benefit 
from the Public School Teachers' Retirement Fund as provided 
for in this Act, shall not be entitled to receive benefit while draw- 
ing a salary as a teacher in active service in the public schools. 

Sec. 4. The moneys for the use of the Public School Teach- 
ers' Retirement Fund shall be secured by a special levy upon the 
said school district, such special levy, however, not to exceed one- 
fifth of one mill, and from any gifts or bequests which may be 
made to said fund. 



STATE NORMAL SCHOOL 

Providing for the Granting of Diplomas at the Colorado State 
Normal School at Gunnison 

Section 1. The Colorado State Normal School at Gunnison 
is authorized to grant diplomas to such students as shall have 
completed the full course of instruction in said Normal School, 
shall have been recommended by the faculty and shall have 
passed the final examination upon the branches embraced in the 
prescribed course of study; such examination to be conducted by 
the examining board, consisting of the State superintendent of 
public instruction, a county superintendent of schools within the 
state, appointed for the purpose by the governor, and the presi- 
dent of said school. Such diploma, when signed by the members 
of said examining board and the president and secretary of the 
board of trustees, shall be evidence that the receiver thereof is a 
graduate of the State Normal School, and entitled to all the 
honors and privileges of such graduates. 



34 EDUCATIONAL LAWS PASSED BY THE 



TAX 

To Exempt Consolidated and Union Hig^h School Districts from 
County High School Tax 

Section 1'. Any consolidated school district maintaining a 
high school accredited by the State University, and any school 
district organized into a union high school district and maintain- 
ing therein a union high school accredited by the State Univer- 
sity, may, by a majority vote of the electors of said consolidated 
school district or said union high school district, at an election 
called for that purpose, be exempt from the payment of county 
high school taxes v^ithin the county or counties v^here such con- 
solidated school district or school districts organized as a union 
high school district may exist. 

Sec. 2. Whenever any consolidated school district or any 
school districts organized into a union high school district shall 
become exempt from the payment of the county high school taxes 
in the manner herein provided, the district board or high school 
committee of such districts shall immediately thereupon notify 
the County Superintendent of Schools of the fact that such con- 
solidated school district or union high school districts has voted 
upon and carried the question of exemption from the payment of 
county high school taxes w^ithin the county or counties vs^herein 
such 'consolidated school district or union high school district is 
situated. And it shall be the duty of the County Superintendent 
of Schools to certify to the County Commissioners that such con- 
solidated school district or union high school district is exempt 
from the payment of the county high school taxes in the manner 
herein provided, and said County Commissioners are hereby pro- 
hibited from making such county high school levy upon the prop- 
erty of said consolidated school district, or union high school 
district. 



TEACHERS (MINIMUM SALARY) 

Relating to the Increase of Salary for the Teachers of the 
State of Colorado 

Section 1. On or before the day designated by law for the 
commissioners of each county to levy the requisite taxes for the 
ensuing year, the school board of each district shall certify to the 
Board of County Commissioners that part of the special tax levy, 
such part not to exceed ten mills, which shall be sufficient, with 
all other apportionments from state or county, for said district 
CO pay each teacher in the district a salary not less than herein 
provided, for a term of not less than six months in each school 



TWENTY-SECOND GENERAL ASSEMBLY, 1919 35 

year, and such part of the special tax levy shall be made by the 
county commissioners and used .for the purpose of paying teach- 
ers' salaries only. 

The minimum salary that shall be paid to any teacher, except 
substitute teachers, in the public schools of any school districts 
of the third class in the State of Colorado, shall be Sixty Dol- 
lars ($60.00) per month; and in school districts of the first and 
second classes Seventy-five ($75.00) per month. 

Sec. 2. If any school district in any county in the State is 
unable, with the levy provided in Section 1, together with the or- 
dinary apportionment from state and county school funds, to pay 
its teacher or teachers the salaries herein provided for the mini- 
mum number of months prescribed in this Act, it shall be the duty 
of the county superintendent of Schools to apportion to each of 
said districts, and it shall be the duty of the county treasurer to 
place to the credit of such district, a sum of money, which together 
with that part of the special levy of the district provided in Sec- 
tion 1 of this act, and all other moneys available for said district 
shall be sufficient to pay the minimum salaries for the minimum 
time prescribed in this Act; said funds shall be created by the 
levy of the county school tax as provided by Section 5893 of the 
Revised Statutes of 1908 ; provided that not more than one-third 
of the proceeds of such tax shall be used for the purpose of en- 
abling each district to comply with the foregoing requirements. 
If any school district shall fail to certify said special levy of ten 
mills or such portion of it as may be necessary for the purpose 
herein named, the county commissioners shall cause the same to 
be made at the same time that the general levy is made by said 
board. 

Sec. 3. In any county in the state in which there are school 
districts unable, by means of such part of the special levy required 
in Section 1 of this Act, and their proportionate share of the one 
third of the general school levy of this county and the general 
state apportionment to pay the salaries prescribed in this Act, it 
shall be the duty of the County Superintendent to certify these 
facts to the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, not later 
than the first day of June and December in each year. If the 
State Superintendent of Public Instruction, after investigation, 
is convinced of the necessity as set forth in the certificate of the 
county superintendent, it shall be his duty to apportion to every 
such county a sum of money sufficient, together with all funds 
from other sources, to pay the minimum salaries provided for 
teachers in this Act, and the State Treasurer shall pay into the 
treasury of such county the sum so apportioned by the State 
Superintendent of Public Instruction, to be placed to the credit 
of the districts designated in the certificate of the county super- 
intendent. Said money shall be drawn from the public school in- 
come fund of the State; provided, that not more than one hun- 



36 EDUCATIONAL LAWS PASSED BY THE 

dred and fifty thousand dollars of said fund shall be used for this 
purpose, which shall be prorated among the counties requiring the 
same according to their respective needs. No aid from the state 
shall be received by any county whose commissioners fail to make 
the maximum levy for school purposes allowed by law. 

Sec. 4. Nothing in this Act shall prevent a district board or 
the electors of any district from levying a special school tax for 
school purposes on the property of their respective districts; 
provided, that each special tax shall not exceed the limit of such 
taxation prescribed by law. 

Sec. 5. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act 
are hereby repealed. 



TRANSPORTATION 

Concerning School Districts 

Section 1. Any school district in this state may, by a ma- 
jority vote of the qualified electors voting at an election called 
for that purpose, transport children to and from school. In the 
event that transportation becomes unfeasible, the board of di- 
rectors or the high school committee may pay the board of the 
school children with the money that would otherwise be used for 
the transportation of said school children. The party employed 
to transport the children of any school district shall give a bond 
for the faithful performance of his duties, the amount of said bond 
to be fixed by the County Superintendent of Schools. No person 
thus employed to transport children shall be entitled to any salary 
during such period of time as transportation is unfeasible and 
the board of the children is being paid by the school district. 
. (Effective July 15.) 



TUITION 

To Amend Subdivision Fifteenth of Section 5925, Revised Statutes 

of Colorado for the Year 1908, Reg-arding" Provisions of the 

School Attendance and to Repeal all Acts in 

Conflict Herewith 

Section 1. '' Fifteenth '^ Whenever a pupil resident in any 
one district desires to attend high school in any other school in 
another school district of any character, whether in another coun- 
ty or not, either because of convenience or of lack of either high 
school or other school provisions in the district in which such 
pupil is resident or for any other proper reason whatsoever, which 
shall appear sufficient to both the board of directors of the dis- 
trict wherein such pupil is resident and of the district in which 



TWENTY-SECOND GFNERAL ASSEMBLY, 1919 37 

such pupil desires to attend school; the said board of directors 
shall have authority to make arrangements therefor by agreement, 
including- arrangements for a reasonable compensation from the 
funds of the district in which said pupil is resident, to be paid 
to the district in which such pupil desires to attend, and any such 
arrangement so made shall be enforcible by law. 



VOCAIIONAL— EDUCATION 

Making an Appropriation to Promote Vocational Education Under 

the Provisions, Terms and Conditions of an Act of Congress 

Approved February 23, 1917, and Accepted by the State 

of Colorado by an Act of the General Assembly 

Approved April 10, 1917 

Section 1. For the purpose of more effectually promoting 
voeational education in Colorado in co-operation with the United 
States government under the provisions of an act of Congress en- 
titled, "An Act to Provide for the Promotion of Vocational Edu- 
cation, to Provide for Co-operation with the States in the Pro- 
motion of such Education in Agriculture and the Trades and In- 
dustries; to Provide for Co-operation with the States in the Prep- 
aration of Teachers for Vocational Subjects and to Appropriate 
Money and Regulate its Expenditure," there is hereby permanent- 
ly appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise 
appropriated, the sum of $10,000.00 annually to pay the expenses 
of administration and supervision of the work established and to 
be established under said Act of Congress and the Act of General 
Assembly approved April 10, 1917. 

Sec. 2. To provide funds with which the state may comply 
with the spirit and purpose of said Act of Congress, and to enable 
it to co-operate more efPectually Avith the Board of Control of 
state educational institutions, boards of education of first, second 
and third-class school districts and Avith county and high school 
district boards as provided in the act of acceptance of said act 
of Congress and in order to meet the funds granted to the State 
of Colorado under the provisions of said Act of Congress on a 
dollar for dollar brsis, there is hereby approprinted out of money 
in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the followino;' sums: 
for the year 1919, the sum of $27,560.00; for the year 1920, the 
snm of $81,950.00: for the yesv 19'>1 the snm of $36,340.00; for 
Iho year 1922, the sum of $40,730.00; for the year 1923, the sum 
of $45,120.00; for the year 1924, the sum of $53,900.00; for the 
year 1925, and annually thereafter, the sum of $62,680.00. 

Sec. 3. The appropriations in Sections 1 and 2 of this act 
are made in compliance Avith the contractual relations established 
between the State of Colorado and the trovernment of tho T^nit'^d 



38 EDUCATIONAL LAV/S PASSED BY THE 

States to carry out the provisions of said Act of Congress. Said 
appropriations are hereby said to be of the first class and shall 
be controlled and disbursed by the State Board of Agriculture in 
the manner prescribed and under the powers delegated to it un- 
der the Act of the General Assembly approved April 10, 1917, 
and the Auditor of State is hereby directed to draw warrants up- 
on the funds hereby appropriated upon the order of the State 
Board of Agriculture signed by its president and countersigned 
by its secretary. 



